"BEST OF FISH" COLLECTION  The following disks are the result of a severe culling of the Fish Disks, which often have numerous updates, obscure text files, many programming source files, etc, of little use to the average user. Leon Jarvis has worked long and hard to reduce the collection to the most useful and interesting items, to make the Fish Collection easier to digest, and less of a problem to hunt through for that particular program. However, the full Fish Collection is always available from us if there is anything omitted which you might find useful. This list is constantly being updated by Leon, so keep updating your catalogue. Disks 1 - 7 cover the Fish disks from 1 - 100, disks 8 - 13 cover the Fish disks from 101 - 150 (amazing how it squeezes down), and disks 14 - 35 cover them from 151 - 210, and 15 - 40 cover from 211 - 236 and so on. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These BEST OF FISH DISKS Files have been updated as of MAY 1992: BEST OF FISH 54 PrFont Prints a sample of each font from the fonts: directory. Draws one line of each font on a custom hires screen, which can be printed. This is version 1.4, an update to version 1.3 on disk 305. Author: Joel Swank BEST OF FISH 58 PPLib A shared library to make life easy for people who wish to write programs that support PowerPacker. Loading crunched files from C or assembly is made fast, short and easy. This is release 1.4, an update to the version on disk 575. Author: Nico Francois PP Patches AmigaDOS and makes decrunching of powerpacked files completely transparent to any program attempting to read such files. This means that any program may work directly on powerpacked datafiles, without any need to decrunch these first with PowerPacker. A must for Powerpacker fans. This is version 1.4, an update to version 1.3 on disk 542. Author: Michael Berg BEST OF FISH 65 SYSINFO SysInfo A program which reports interesting information about the configuration of your machine, including some speed compar- isons with other configurations, versions of the OS software, etc. This program has been very popular with many users and has been fully updated to include many new functions. This is version 2.62, an update to version 2.60 on disk 619. Author: Nic Wilson TrackDOS A program that allows easy transfer of data between DOS, memory and trackdisk.device. DOS means the data contained within a file, memory means the data contained anywhere within the memory map and trackdisk.device means data stored on a disk not accessable with DOS (eg. bootblocks special loader disks etc.). The transfer of data between these three areas is not normally easy or convenient. TrackDos was written to overcome this. This is version 1.11, an update to version 1.08 on disk 502. Author: Nic Wilson BEST OF FISH 71 APRF APrf A freely redistributable printing utility for the Amiga. Features include a full Intuition interface, preview function, page selection, margins setup, line numbering, an AREXX port, a multi-columns mode, and more.This is version 5.00, an update to version 2.62 on disk 402. Author: Denis GOUNELLE BEST OF FISH 79 AnimFader A small utility to fade screens in and out. Useful for softly fading things like animations recorded on video tape. This is version 1.0, Author: Andreas Ackermann SpellCheck A program which aids you in learning foreign words. You enter the words and their translations, and then the computer quizes you later. Version 1.2, Author: Torgeir Dingsyr, Pantheon Softworks. BEST OF FISH 86 ATCOPY ATCopy A program to copy files from the Amiga side of a system equipped with a PC/AT bridgeboard, to the PC side, using wildcards. Copies directly through the shared memory. Supports CLI and WorkBench usage. This is an an update to version 2.2 on disk 458. Now includes an AREXX port. Share-ware, binary only. Author: Peter Vorwerk BEST OF FISH 87 IE IE An icon editor which can create and modify icons up to 640x200 pixels in size, up to 16 colors, edit all non-graphical icon parameters including up to 40 tooltypes, generate C source code for icon and image programming, import/export IFF images, recolor icons for DOS2.0, write text into icon in any font and style, and much more. Demo version of IE 3.0, a major update to version 2.0 on disk number 377. Requires 1 Meg. Author: Peter Kiem BEST OF FISH 91 DBASE bBaseII A simple database program using an intuition interface. Stores, sorts and searches for information. Limited to 9 fields in each record. Features include fast sorting, search in any field, and best of all, it's really easy to use. This is version 5.3, an update to version 5 on disk 563. Changes include improved print-outs, and now supports mailing labels. Author: Robert Bromley IE MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 58 TO BEST OF FISH 87 HDCLICK MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 79 TO BEST OF FISH 87 FENSTER MOVED FROM BEST OF FISH 44 TO BEST OF FISH 101 ************ PLEASE NOTE ************ THE LATEST BEST OF FISH DISKS AS OF MAY 1992 ARE 95,96,97.98,99,100,101 THE BEST OF FISH DISKS NOW NUMBER 1 to 101, covering Fish 1 - 630. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| IF THINGS DON'T WORK... Just a word to everyone that uses any public domain collections. Or If you are new to the Amiga and you are having problems and you are getting a requester saying something like: "please insert volume Best_of_fish" and you know that you just put your disk in the drive then more than likely you have removed a file from your Boot disk and the program cannot find it. MOST OF THE TIME I HAVE FOUND THE FILE TO BE XICON THAT IS MISSING FROM THE BOOT DISK. USE A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL WORKBENCH - THIS SHOULD STOP ANY PROBLEMS. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| This is BEST OF FISH DISK 95 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. MathsAdv A simple game where you, the young adventurer, must try to escape the king's Maths Adventure. To do this you must pass through a series of rooms. In each room you are given a math problem to solve, after which you can proceed to the next room if you answer correctly. The problems become more involved and more difficult in each room. Author: Jason Lowe Paragon A two player game where the object is to build a given crown (a pattern of 5 stones) on the playboard. Author: Volker Stepprath PrLabel A utility to print laser printer labels. Support 3x8, 2x8 and 2x7 A4 label sheets. The program may easily be modified for other formats. Also serves as a demonstration of using STSLib for gadgets and menus. Version 1.1, Author: Andrew Martin, SciTech Software RingWar A classic arcade game of reflexes. The graphics are based on the vector style of the old arcade games such as Asteroids and Tempest. The goal of the game is to penetrate through the three rotating rings and hit the five pointed star in the ringship at the center of the rings, while avoiding randomly appearing mines, and the ringship firing back at you. Binary only. Author: Eric Bazan Rothello Reversi/Othello like game that features the option to shift complete rows or columns of the playfield. Play a human or computer opponent. Version 1.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Michael Koepke and Rolf Herrmann ========================================================================= This is BEST OF FISH DISK 96 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Concentration A game in which the player must match pairs of words to win. Takes two players to play and can be played against either another person or against the computer. Version 3.3, binary only, source available from authors. Author: Alan and Heather Keith CryptoKing A game for those who like to solve Cryptograms, (those coded sentences that have to be decoded to be read). Operate with keyboard or mouse. Version 1.0, binary only, shareware. Author: Robert Bromley DungeonMap A little tool that creates maps of dungeons (and eventually towns) which can be used by a Dungeon Master (DM's) for use in a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game. These maps can be saved, edited, and printed. This is version 1.0. Binary only. Author: Bill Elliot Revenge A fast-action game with horizontal scrolling in which you control a laser-spitting Camel while destroying hordes of weird enemies who are after your hump. Collect bonuses on the way to obtain more devastating weaponry. In 2-Player & CPU-Assist modes, an Ancipital-creature joins the Camel to make a team. Stereo phased samples, 42 levels in several zones. 512K-NTSC version. 1MEG and/or PAL versions avail- able upon registration. Shareware, binary only. Author: YaK, Llamasoft UK =========================================================================== This is BEST OF FISH DISK 97 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AlgoRhythms An algorithmic composition program that improvises music over a MIDI interface connected to the serial port. A MIDI inter- face and synthesizer are needed. The music is simple but can be pretty. Now on its own 8 color screen, with 20 voices and more scales, AlgoRhythms saves its own output to standard MIDI files, and can play 330 notes/sec on a 68000 at 7MHz. Does not use Amiga audio. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 356. sample data files. Author: Thomas E. Janzen MIDIstuff A package of 8 tools that use midi.library so that they can use MIDI at the same time and can easily be combined in a modular way. Release 2 prerelease version, binary only. Author: Bill Barton and Carl Loesch MultiPlayer Music player program which plays Soundtracker/Noisetracker modules, MED modules, and over 15 other types. It contains a simple control panel, and allows creating "programs" to play a list of modules in sequence or in random order. Works well with 1.3 and 2.0. Supports Workbench 2.0's "AppWindow" feature - just drop modules into the MultiPlayer window to play them. Plays modules at the correct speed regardless of video mode (NTSC or PAL). ARexx port and program load/save available in registered version. Version 1.17, shareware, update to version 1.11a on disk 573. Binary only. Author: Bryan Ford Stuffer MIDI Utility to construct and transmit any type of MIDI message. Message building can be done via mouse or keyboard in hex, decimal or mnemonic form. Supports standard MIDI files and Roland SYSEX checksumming. Version 0.9b, binary only. Author: Laurence Vanhelsuwé ========================================================================== This is BEST OF FISH DISK 98 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AutoGraf Collects and graphically displays information on auto mileage. Features miles per gallon, cost per mile, miles driven, highs, lows, averages, etc. Includes a couple of sample data files. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 166. Binary only. Author: Joel Swank FileMinder Utility for maintaining files and directories on a hard disk. Allows you to graphically see your directory structure, to move quickly to any directory, and to perform operations on the files and other directories there. This is version 1.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Joel Swank HDClick A program selector / Harddisk-menu. Programs can be started easily by clicking on gadgets which can be defined by the user. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.21 on disk 439. This version includes sub-menus, functions to edit the gadgets, preferences to change colors, a "Small"-window, Hotkey-iconify and more. Includes PAL and NTSC versions. Comes with Config_Tool 1.62 by Manfred Gillert, a tool to edit HDClick-configfiles easily, and with other useful functions. Binary only, shareware. Author: Claude Mueller =========================================================================== This is BEST OF FISH DISK 99 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AutoPort A software switch that makes it possible to use a trackball or mouse plugged into the first mouseport, together with another trackball or mouse in the second port, as if they were two input devices plugged into the same first port. Version 1.1, STScan A utility program for using a Siemens ST 400 SCSI flatbed scanner with the Amiga. Can be adapted to other scanners and serves as an example of scsi-direct access to scsi devices. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 560. New features include image processing and vectorization functions that can be used without any scanner. Author: Frank-Christian Kruegel Author: Bernd (Koessi) Koesling Vertex A 3D object editor that differs from other 3D editors in many ways. You can choose any view, including perspective, to sel- ect points and examine objects. The view can be rotated, pos- itioned and scaled at will by either typed in values or using the mouse, which makes the editor fast and responsive. This is version 1.28b, shareware, binary only. Author: Alexander D. Deburie ======================================================================== This is BEST OF FISH DISK 100 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. FreePaint A freely redistributable painting program, much like the popular DPaint program. Version 37, an update to version 35z on disk 548. Binary only. Author: Stefan G. Boldorf and Bjrn-Eric Trost Graffiti Demo version of an art program, with a feature set somewhat less than DPaint but more than many other such programs. Has a few special functions included like autoscrolling, converting screens to other resolutions, changing RGB values of the whole screen, fast autoscrolling magnifier and many others. This is version 1.6e, an update to version 1.5 on disk 610. Shareware demo, binary only. Author: Marcus Schiesser ========================================================================= This is BEST OF FISH DISK 101 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AmiGazer Compute a view of the night sky, using a data base of 1573 stars, for any date, time of day, and latitude. Click on stars for info about them. This is version 3.0, an update to the version on disk 90. Now compatible with WB 2.0. Author: Richard Horne Fenster A program which can operate on requesters, screens, and win- dows owned by another program, to close them, change their size, refresh gadgets, move the window to the background, etc. This is version 3.2, an update to version 2.2 on disk 362. Author: Roger Fischlin IFF A program to display single or multiple IFF files from Work- bench or CLI. It has been written in 100% assembler to be as small and fast as possible. Version 1.6, binary only. Author: Nic Wilson PCMenu Control your pulldown menus from the keyboard using the arrow keys or "first letter matching". Multiple selections made with Shift-Return. Remembers and returns to previous menu items. Completely configurable. This is version 1.5. Author: Brian Moats RemapInfo An icon color remapping tool that swaps the colors black and white. The program runs on 1.3, but when run on 2.0 it supports the AppIcon feature. It allows you to drag all icons you wish to remap on RemapInfo's AppIcon to recolor them. Version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 542. Author: Nico Francois TKEd TKEd is a very comfortable Intuition-based ASCII editor. It can read texts packed with PowerPacker, has user-definable menus, a comfortable AREXX-interface with 79 commands, an interface to some errortools for programmers, and macros. TKEd is reentrant and can be made resident. Version 1.00a. Author: Tom Kroener TrueEd A shareware editor. Version 3.40. Author: Jurgen Klein !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!